“One thing that I’m really curious about though is how does this stuff get made? How did somebody get the money for all that equipment and the room etc. That room is in Omotesando which is one of the most expensive places in Tokyo. It seems like it would be really fun to contribute to […]
Read more "QUOTE R111"Addressing social, technological and political challenges
Read more "q-human"At the core of R111 stands 1ST1: a fossil of information, a binary totem formed from stoneware
Read more "R111 | 1ST1 | THE LITHIC CLOUD | 1999"the tunnel of light – interactive light installation in Frankfurt airport.
Read more "LIGHT AS SKIN | 1997-2015"In 1992, Hyena Days debuted at Ars Electronica. The project featured a collaboration between Icelandic video art pioneer Steina Vasulka and German media artist Michael Saup, who initiated and directed the work.
Read more "Hyena Days | 1992"data-tableau for fossil fine ants, C, 1991
Read more "Sonic Shadows | 1991"special price of the jury at the 4. Marler Video-Kunst-Preis 1990
Read more "PARADAYS | 1989"digital light
Read more "FLICKER | 1987"Read more "WORKS"“R111 could be considered the pinnacle of media art at the turn of the millennium.”
Yukiko Shikata, President of International Association of Art Critics Japan, 2024
“Using VR, a virtual space, artist Michael Saup has constructed an incredible realm of wonder, a world where reality and data merge. There eternity and instant coexist, virtuality and reality coexist, along with miracle and disillusion.”
Liu Chang, Shanghai, 2023
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Remembering the tree of Half-Life
Read more "NUCLEAR"“I don’t know what weapons might be used in World War III. But there isn’t any doubt what weapons will be used in World War IV: Stone spears!”
Albert Einstein, 1948
Civic engagement addressing challenges created by technological or political systems
Read more "Humanistic"Read more "Quote"This dream is for you
–John Barry / Leslie Bricusse (1967)
So pay the price
Make one dream come true
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